Finished upgrading my PH315-52-78VL. 8TB SSD, 64GB RAM, thoughts, and a question about temps.

phatfreeza

Hi all, I just thought I'd share with you my experience upgrading this laptop.

The parts I used were:
(2) Samsung 32GB DDR4 2666MHz
xpg s11 pro 2tb nvme m.2 drive
pioneer 2tb nvme m.2 drive
western digital blue 4tb sata ssd

Opening the laptop up was a breeze. the back came off easily but i had to use a plastic spudger to get the front to come off. I unplugged the battery and proceeded to replace the parts. Everything went smoothly. the xpg ssd comes with a heat shield so I did not use the silver one that came with the laptop. Put everything back together and installed windows and everything was detected. The 64gb of ram is running at 2666mhz without having to change any settings.

Now onto the questions:

The first question is: I ran crystal disk mark and info and i am getting the following speeds:

xpg s11 pro: reads : 1900MB/s , writes: 2500 MB/s
pioneer: reads: 2200MB/s, writes 2800 MB/s
WD blue reads : 545MB/s writes 530 MB/s

I find it weird that my write speeds are faster than my reads. Is there something I'm overlooking? A driver perhaps?

The second question is as I ran crystaldiskmark on the xpg s11 pro the temps got up to 62 degrees C and the pioneer stayed in the 50s. When should I start worrying about temps?

Feel free to ask me any questions about this upgrade!

xapim

phatfreeza you should have great temps cpu/gpu wise it should come pre undervolted as usual  but if u feel like you can go even further on undervolting it with TS you can also if you want to repaste it with kryonaut or similar if you can open it without voiding your warranty (as it seems you can as you already upgraded everything that was possible to)